Not only are Onavo Count's insights unique, but Onavo Count is also the only app data usage monitor that prevents battery drainage by using cloud-based technologies!

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Other major themes at the show, judging from pre-CTIA email pitches, include cloud-based services that will store media and stream it to multiple devices, mobile video editing tools, easy ways to monitor data usage and ever-smaller cellular base stations.

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While carrier and other third party apps have helped iPhone users monitor their total data usage, there are no apps in the App Store that make it easy for users to make sense of their apps' data consumption... until now.

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Researchers from SwayMarkets, which makes smartphone apps that monitor mobile signal quality and data usage, brought a handful of cell phones to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game and measured network performance.

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But that will be enough for automakers to be able to monitor car components for warranty failure data, customer choices, and usage patterns.

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